Regular Meeting, December 26, 2007

(Here are the members and guest in attendance, We missed the rest of you.)

Few members attended the final meeting of the CLK Rotary Club for 2007; in fact, there were but ten members and one guest in total. We almost all fit at one table. But a new year will be staring in a couple of days so lets turn over a new leaf and try to make attendance a bit more of a priority.

The speaker was your OLD blogger himself telling more stories. Oh well, take heart for I am running out of them. Inasmuch as your speaker had forgot it was his session, Dan suggested during lunch that I talk about winterizing the various Queens. I ended up telling about the three or four times I almost sank her at her winter dock and ended the talk with a story about the time I christened "Kilpela's Reef" at Isle Royale.

Oh well, retirement looms and none too soon. See you next wednesday....FOR SURE!!


(The Isle Royale Queen II perched on Kilpela's Reef, Isle Royale)



A HEALTHY, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!

Regular Meeting, December 19, 2007

IMPORTANT ITEM: Our annual Christmas dinner will be held at the Irish Times on Friday, December 21 with cocktails at 6 and dinner thereafter. If you want to attend, please call Andy immediately – repeat, immediately – at 296-0433 to make your reservation. We hope you will attend.



The 13 members and 1 guest (Jim Cone, Sue's son) that attended today’s Rotary Luncheon and Meeting were treated to a performance by the 16-member Calumet Jazz Band, under the direction of Scott Veenstra. The jazz band is a 2-year old program for credit at the high school. The place was really jumping as many of the performers took their turn improvising a riff.

The whole affair, which included lunch for the band members, was sponsored by Tom Liljigren and much appreciated. A hearty “thanks” to you, Tom.





HELP!! There I growing concern district wide over the dramatic drop in attendance at Rotary meetings and functions and CLK Rotary is no exception. It is troubling and deserves serious thought by everyone. If you have any insights into this, please bring them to the meeting and voice them.

Meantime, have a great Christmas and we’ll see you on Friday evening and also next week.


Andy gives the treasured Rotary mug to Scott Veenstra as a token of our appreciation for the wonderful performance.